Two Completely Differet Conversations

[housewolf]

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week 2 friday

[holeful]

[Here is the sad dog, finding Omi in the kitchen. He seems more languid than usual, which should make sense to Omi since he knows how fond Fukuda was of Steven.]

Omi... it's happened again.

[housewolf]

I'm sorry.

... It seems like there's a pattern.

[holeful]

It would be nice if the pattern could stop here. Three weeks of murders, ending with three murders...

[And..... and also that it then stops there, Fukuda????]

[housewolf]

Somehow I don't think we're going to be that lucky.

I'm not sure how long this is supposed to go on.

[holeful]

That's why I was trying to ask the avatars about a win condition when we first got here... Without a clear one, people are just going to get more desperate.

[In any case;]

You're not cooking?

[housewolf]

Did you get an answer from them?

No. I think if I tried it now, it wouldn't come out well. Too distracted.

[holeful]

No... they didn't have an answer.

[Sighs.]
I understand. Steven, Luca, even Mr Vlad.... I liked talking to all of them.

[housewolf]

Do you think that's because they don't know the answer, or they don't want to say?

I'll miss them.

[holeful]

I don't think they know. Or, maybe only some of them do.

[Reaching out for Omi's hand, gently.]
The best we can do now is to make sure we find their killers.

[housewolf]

[He takes Fukuda's hand in his own.]

I don't want to miss this time too.

[holeful]

[Squeezing gently. Unfortunately, Omi gets another flash of memory, a small one, but it's similar to the first in that it's Anaido, dying, this time being struck by lightning.]

We won't. We can't.

[housewolf]

[Mmmoh my god stop dying.]

I'll... I'll do my best.

[But how good is that, really? He's not an investigator, this isn't something he's trained for.]

[holeful]

It's not fair, really. Most people haven't any experience doing something like this.

[housewolf]

There's only a couple of professions where you'd get practice. Detectives and police.

[holeful]

Aah. I know Mineo works for the police. Steven's job is similar too. And I have the experience of being Brilliant Detective Anaido. But everyone else... I'm not sure.

[housewolf]

Sasazuka is also Mineo's coworker, so it makes sense he has some experience too.

... But you're right. There aren't very many.

[holeful]

If we weren't under such a severe time constraint, it would be better to leave the investigation to the experts. I don't understand why we have to do it like this.

[housewolf]

Nine hours seems so long. It's still a race against the clock.

I don't get it either.

[holeful]

Aah. It's like we're set up to fail. With everyone sharing information, there's no way to catch the culprit in having knowledge only they could have. That's why normally the police don't release all the information about an ongoing investigation.

[housewolf]

Is that how you solve crimes?

[holeful]

Haha, why are you asking me? I'm not a real detective.

[housewolf]

I don't think most of us are.

[holeful]

That's why it feels like we've been set up to fail.

[housewolf]

The Avatars seem to believe in us.

... For some reason...

[holeful]

That or they don't really care.